WP Tools <= 5.18 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary File Renaming

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2025-39544
CVSS Medium (6.5)
Publicly Published April 16, 2025
Last Updated April 21, 2025
Researcher chuck
Description

The WP Tools plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 5.18. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the deactivate_mu_plugin() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to rename arbitrary files (which is the equivalent of arbitrary file deletion) via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wptools (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.18
Patched Version
  • 5.19
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